Building a cloud-friendly application

Building a cloud-friendly application

The days of hand-crafted artisanal servers are long over. Modern web applications need to be able to run on many different servers without code changes – not just different hosting providers, but different environments on the same hosting provider. Whether you’re using a legacy dev/stage/prod setup or a modern branch-is-environment host, modern hosting imposes some requirements on your application design but also offers a huge potential for new and powerful tools.

In this session, we’ll explore some key guidelines for building a cloud-friendly application, as well as look at some architectural options that a modern hosting platform enables.